NorthWest Ordinances- allowed the U.S. to expand into the northwest terriotories of America including the area south of the great lake nand the northwest of ohio Judiciary Act of 1785- gave supreme court judge the ability to commission laws Native American Policies:
Removal Act: apart of the US policy known as Indian Removal; signed into law by president Andrew Jackson on May 26,1830;strongly supportyed by the south, an act that gave the states acess to the lands inhibited by the five civilized tribes; moved the natives further west to give the lands to the whites
Worcester v. Georgia: a us Supreme court case that vacated Samuel Worcester on the grounds that the Georgia criminal statue that prohibited non-indians from going onto indian lands without a state license was an unconstitutional act
Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia: a series of laws enacted by the state of georgia that stripped the Cherokee nation tribe of their rights under state law intending to force the indians out of the state;law ruled that the indians were not a US state therefor they were indpendent of the US and therefor the court did not have the "jurisdiction" in the case of the Indians
Treaty of New Echota-signed in January 1836 in New Echota Georgia, a treaty that established that the entire Cherokee nation was to move west toward the indian terriotry that led to the trail of tears; treaty was ratified in March of 1836
Indian Appropriations act of 1871-
Treaty of Hopewell- November 28,1785 a treaty between the U.S. and the Cherokee (1785), Choctaw and Chickasaw (1786) indigenous nations that laid out a western boundary for white settlment
Judiciary Act of 1785- gave supreme court judge the ability to commission laws
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